US Patent Issued to Koning on July 15 for "Calcification detection systems, methods and apparatus in cone beam breast computed tomography" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,258, issued on July 15, was assigned to Koning Corp. (Norcross, Ga.).

"Calcification detection systems, methods and apparatus in cone beam breast computed tomography" was invented by Ruola Ning (Atlanta) and Shaohua Liu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a breast microcalcification feature by acquiring a tomographic imaging data set and a stationary imaging data set and combining the tomographic imaging data set with the stationary imaging data set to improve resolution and reduce blur in the resulting combined image. The resulting improve resolution image data set is evaluated for identification of breast ca...